A rare double-ended wrought iron fire dog

Each upright terminating in a point and pierced for a ring, and fitted with six scroll hooks, raised on a pair of divergent strap feet, 94cm wide x 19cm deep x 66cm high, (37in wide x 7in deep x 25 1/2in high)

Literature:
See J. Seymour Lindsay, Iron and Brass Implements of the English House (1970), where Plate 1 illustrates a double-ended fire-dog of the Late Celtic period and Plate 2 another of the 16th century.